HEALTH

TOPIC: HEALTH

SUB-TOPICS: Mental health, Creative Coping Methods, Collaborative Problem Solving, Nutrition and Exercise, Health Tips, Importance of Sleep, Helping others

CENTRAL IDEA: PRACTICE READING & LISTENING (receptive) and SPEAKING & WRITING (productive) ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH

LEXICAL RESOURCES & KEY GRAMMAR: click for full list.

LANGUAGE LEVEL: B1 to C1

BEFORE STARTING THE HEALTH UNIT, CHECK OUT ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF TASK COMPLETION, DEPENDING ON CHOSEN TOOLS.

Lesson 1 & 2

Mental Health and Creative Coping Methods

Lesson 3 & 4

Collaborative problem solving

Lesson 5-6

Nutrition & exercise - health tips

Lesson 7

The Importance of Sleep

Lesson 8

How to handle it and help others

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21st century SKILLS

1. Critical thinking

2. Creativity

3. Collaboration

4. Communication

5. Information literacy

6. Media literacy

7. Technology literacy

8. Flexibility

9. Leadership

10. Initiative

11. Productivity

12. Social skills

LIFE SKILLS

Life skills students will hone in the HEALTH topic:

awareness of not being alone in grappling with teen mental health issues
awareness of possible de-stressing with the help of music
assessing commonalities with peers regarding hobbies and life passions
critical thinking applied to web-based medical articles on a variety of ailments
awareness of the importance of sleep and ways of ensuring healthy sleep patterns
strategies for self-help and helping other teens to cope with teen mental health issues

REFLECTION

Whenever you FINISH the module (after any number of lessons), please ask your students to fill out a short reflection form, and there's one for yourself, too. It's located on Lesson 8 page.